Denial of Service Vulnerability in libbfd's dwarf2.c

CVE-2017-15022 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the DW_AT_name data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_hash_hash NULL pointer dereference, or out-of-bounds access, and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to scan_unit_for_symbols and parse_comp_unit.

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